Solving the Puzzle
Of Missing Spam

By

Jason Fry The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated June 2, 2003 11:59 p.m. ET

This is a curious tale about a wonderful thing that happened to my spam, and that you'll wish would happen to yours.

Dedicated Real Time readers (Hi, mom!) may remember our February column in which I broke down my e-mail for a week and found I received 931 spams, accounting for 63% of total e-mail. That's not conducive to productivity -- and it was a situation that seemed to be getting worse all the time.